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Civil unrest in New York by date in ascending order, from earliest to latest.
* 1712 – [[New York Slave Revolt of 1712|New York Slave Revolt]] occurred on April 6, when Africans set fire to a building and attacked settlers<ref name=map>
* 1741 – [[New York Conspiracy of 1741|New York Conspiracy]] occurred when a series of fires March through April burned portions of the city<ref name="pbs">
* 1788 – [[1788 Doctors' Riot|Doctors Mob Riot]], occurred in April over the [[body snatching|illegal procurement of corpses]] from the graves of slaves and poor whites<ref name="smithsonianmag.com">
* 1834 – [[Anti-abolitionist riot (1834)|Anti-abolitionist riot]], occurred from July 7 to July 10 over [[Abolitionism in the United States|abolitionism]]<ref name="gotham"/>
* 1837 – [[Flour Riots]], occurred February 12, when merchant stores were sacked, destroying or looting 500-600 barrels of flour and 1,000 bushels of wheat<ref name="gotham"/>
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* 1857 – [[New York City Police Riot]] occurred June 16 between the New York Municipal Police and the Metropolitan Police over the Mayor's appointment for the position of city street commissioner<ref name="Asbury"/>
* 1857 – [[Dead Rabbits Riot]], occurred July 4 through 5 and consisted of widespread gang violence and looting<ref name="rabbit">{{cite book |last=Headley |first=J.T. |date=1873 |title=The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873, Including a Full and Complete Account of the Four Days' Draft Riot of 1863 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-rfxEXSqQ7EC|location=New York |publisher=E.B. Treat |pages=131–32 |isbn=9781605206547}}</ref>
* 1863 – [[New York City draft riots]], occurred July 13 through 16 in response to government efforts to [[Conscription in the United States|draft]] men to fight in the ongoing [[American Civil War]].<ref name="casualties">
* 1870 – [[Orange riots|First New York City Orange riot]], occurred July 12 when demonstrators clashed with hecklers and laborers during a parade<ref name="gotham"/>
* 1871 – [[Orange riots|Second New York City Orange riot]], occurred July 12 when [[Orange Order|Orangemen]], police and militia clashed with the crowd during a parade<ref name="gotham">{{cite book |author-link=Edwin G. Burrows |last1=Burrows |first1=Edwin G. |name-list-style=amp |author-link2=Mike Wallace (historian) |last2=Wallace |first2=Mike |title=[[Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898]] |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-195-11634-8}}</ref>
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* 1967 - In a wave of race riots across the country called the [[Long, hot summer of 1967]], riots and looting took place in Spanish Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant<ref>{{cite web |last1=US News Staff |title=109 U.S. Cities Faced Violence in 1967 |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-07-12/race-troubles-109-us-cities-faced-violence-in-1967 |publisher=US News |accessdate=11 August 2020}}</ref>
* 1968 – [[1968 New York City riot|New York City riot]], occurred April 4 and 5 following the [[Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.|assassination of Martin Luther King]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-night-new-york-avoided-a-riot|title=The Night New York Avoided a Riot|author=Clay Risen|work=The Morning News}}</ref>
* 1968 – [[Columbia University protests of 1968|Columbia University protests]], occurred April 23 in response to the [[Vietnam War]] and [[Racial segregation in the United States|segregation]]<ref name=40th>
* 1969 – [[Stonewall riots]], occurred June 28 through July 2 as a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the [[LGBT community|gay (LGBT) community]] in response to a [[police raid]] of the [[Stonewall Inn]]<ref name=diversity>{{cite web |author=National Park Service|title=Workforce Diversity: The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562 | url=http://www.nps.gov/diversity/stonewall.htm| publisher=US Department of Interior|year=2008 |accessdate=January 21, 2013}}</ref>
* 1970 – [[Hard Hat Riot]], occurred May 8 in a confrontation between construction workers and protesters of the [[Vietnam War]], the [[Kent State shootings]], and the [[U.S. invasion of Cambodia]]<ref name="Bigart">{{Cite news|last=Bigart
* 1973 – [[Shooting of Clifford Glover]], occurred on April 28 and led to several days of rioting in the [[South Jamaica]] neighborhood<ref name="glover">{{cite news |title=Clifford Glover: Instant Martyrdom|newspaper=The Montreal Gazette|date=May 7, 1973 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VZouAAAAIBAJ&sjid=oKEFAAAAIBAJ&dq=clifford-glover%20thomas-shea&pg=930%2C2049633 |accessdate=September 15, 2010}}</ref>
* 1977 – [[New York City blackout of 1977|New York City Blackout riot]], occurred July 13 and 14, when widespread looting and arson followed a power outage<ref name="blackout">{{cite news |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E3DA1730F936A2575BC0A9659C8B63|title=The Blackouts of '65 and '77 Became Defining Moments in the City's History |work= [[New York Times]] |date= August 15, 2003 | first1=Martin | last1=Gottlieb | first2=James | last2=Glanz | accessdate=May 20, 2010}}</ref>
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